are you a cat

"Be careful of the steps." Welcoming and sending off a group of guests, the hotel greeted the guests with a smile on their faces and reminded the guests who walked out of the gate.

Yechen was caught among the group of passengers who just checked out, and walked down the steps slowly.

"Honey, your shoelaces are untied." When a young couple passed by the hotel entrance, the young husband pulled his wife.

It was inconvenient for the wife to hold a half-grown baby in her arms, so the husband squatted down on the spot.

The little baby lay on his mother's chest and sucked his hand.

She looked around, babbled and stretched out her hands to scratch in the air, and caught Yechen who was walking by them.

The little baby was bold and not small at all, and grabbed Ye Chen's clothes to prevent him from leaving.

Yechen stopped and looked at the little baby's curious and ignorant eyes when they first met the world.

The expression on his face is not pretty, even children who can read emotions a little bit will not come forward.

But the baby who was still in the swaddling position didn't understand anything, she grinned at Yechen with a toothless mouth, spread her five fingers, and stretched out her arms like lotus root joints, her whole upper body was about to fall out of her mother's arms .

She wants to hug too.

The young mother broke the child's paws and apologized repeatedly.

Yechen's sleeve was grabbed and beaten by the baby, and her saliva was stained on it.

The young father took out a bag of wet tissues from his baby bag, and explained to Ye Chen with a smile: "My daughter Yan Kong, whenever she sees beautiful little brothers and sisters, she will be hugged by her. I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Yechen took the wet tissue and wiped it casually.

Young mother reminds her husband: "The dance class is over."

The two walked away with the child in their arms, and the father took the child from the mother's arms, because the words he said clearly wafted into Yechen's ears before he left: "Go pick up my sister from school."

The little baby yelled twice in agreement.

Yechen watched them walk away, and was a little dazed after throwing the wet tissue into the trash can.

He didn't know where to go.

Yu Xin and Ye Zeyang will definitely go home to find him after they find out that he is gone, he doesn't want to see them.

He also didn't want to go to Deng Xing and Bai Jingping.

He probably couldn't play around with his friends like pretending nothing happened right now, but he didn't want to tell them what happened tonight either.

Yechen rejects the birthday party carefully prepared by his friends just because he wants to celebrate his coming of age with his parents.

The results of it?

It's kind of funny.

He hooked the corners of his lips in a self-deprecating manner, and took out the bus card from his pocket.

This is the only thing on Ye Chen's body now.

It happened that a bus was slowly stopping at the bus stop on the side of the road. Yechen swiped his card to get on the bus and found an empty seat to sit down.

He didn't know where the car ended up going, and he didn't want to know.

When I came back to my senses, the bus had already reached the terminal.

He stood at the intersection for a while, feeling that the alley he was in seemed familiar.

The houses in the old city are generally short and compact, and the streets are narrower than the newly developed city with many high-rise buildings.

Yechen glanced at the road signs before confirming that this bus took him to the west of the city.

Because he often draws sketches, although Yechen's memory is not as good as a photographic memory, it is still relatively strong.

Especially for line capture.

The reason why he felt that the street in front of him was familiar was because it was not far from the studio of Xu Yuxing's band.

He walked this way.

The terminal of the bus is not on the main street, and the bustle of the night is blocked outside the intersection, and Yechen walks into the depths of the alley.

Most of the band's performances are at night, and the iron gates of the warehouse are closed.

None of them are there.

Yechen stood quietly at the door for a moment with downcast eyes.

Then he took a few steps back, kicked against the wall next to him like a gust of wind, grabbed the vines and turned inside.

The boy moved nimbly like a nimble cat.

The tables and chairs in the yard that were usually unoccupied were occupied by unknown vines on the wall, half of the street lights outside came in, and the warehouse was quiet and there was no one there.

Yechen grasped the doorknob, and forcefully lowered his wrist——

The doorknob didn't budge.

No one was there, and the studio door was naturally locked.

It is normal to not be able to open the door without the key.

Ye Chen, who had been calm when he came out of the restaurant, suddenly seemed to be stabbed by a door that couldn't be opened in front of him. He was inexplicably angry, and violently twisted the doorknob repeatedly.

After several times, he finally kicked hard on the anti-theft door.

This warehouse is far away from the smoky residential areas and commercial streets. It was originally chosen to facilitate the band's practice and not disturb the neighbors around. At night, few people pass by here, and the quiet alleys are heard one after another. "Kang Bang Bang" sound.

I don't know how long it took Ye Chen to stop with his eyes red.

Yechen didn't know why he wanted to open the door in front of him, but the more the door couldn't be opened, the angrier he became.

It was as if everything was against him and made him unhappy.

He even felt a powerless feeling of grievance in his heart.

Couldn't even open the door.

Yechen's chest was heaving, his eyes were sore, he bit his lower lip tightly to hold back the tears that wanted to roll out of his eyes.

Suddenly there was a "creak", and the harsh sound when the iron door was pushed open caused Ye Chen to turn his head.

He didn't even have time to put away the embarrassment on his face, and even said that he didn't even see who the visitor was, before he was dragged by the arm and pulled into the opponent's arms.

Some bitter woody perfume penetrated strongly into his nostrils, and he could feel the heat from the person holding him through two layers of fabric.

On a midsummer night, the air is filled with sticky dryness that can't be blown away by the night wind.

Xu Yuxing searched for Yechen all night.

God knows how annoyed he was when he found out that he didn't have the contact information of any of Yechen's friends, he didn't know where Yechen would stay except school, home and studio, and his ignorance of Yechen was exactly the same as his parents.

At that moment Xu Yuxing felt that he was no different from Yu Xin and Ye Zeyang.

He didn't have any expectations when he came to the studio, but when he got off the car, he heard the sound of demolition in the warehouse.

The teammates are all performing at this point, it can't be them.

And when he saw Yechen's scarlet eyes and the expression on his face that was about to cry, Xu Yuxing just wanted to hug him.

It can even be said that the body acts before the brain.

When his thought came up, he had already strode forward, stretching his arms and stuffing the person into his arms.

Xu Yuxing didn't care about his current sweat, he just wanted to hug Yechen, rub his head, and tell him, "It's okay."

"It's okay." He put his arms around Yechen with one arm, and put his other hand on the back of his head, comforting Yechen with an absolutely protective posture, "I'm here."

Yechen buried his head on Xu Yuxing's shoulder, and he let Xu Yuxing hug him without saying a word, and did not respond to Xu Yuxing's words.

He blinked, but what he saw was suddenly blurred.

Xu Yuxing could clearly feel the moisture on his shoulders.

This was the first time that Yechen vented his grievance and unwillingness in front of him so calmly, but Xu Yuxing couldn't be happy at all, he just felt distressed.

Because the child didn't make any sound even when he cried.

In the previous ten years, he didn't know how many times he secretly hid like this and cried.

Xu Yuxing opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

He could only tighten his arms and hug Ye Chen even tighter.

The yard was so quiet that one could hear the chirping of insects one after another in the grass, and the street lamp outside the door quietly pulled out a slender figure embracing two people on the ground.

Ye Chen didn't cry for long.

The reason why he had let Xu Yuxing hold him still was because he felt ashamed.

Teenagers are always concerned in inexplicable places, such as crying is a shameful and uncool thing to them.

And it can't solve any problems, Ye Chen has always thought so.

Although it was night, the weather was still very hot. When two people hugged each other, they seemed to be able to feel the breath from each other's pores, heating up the heat.

Yechen waited for a long time but did not wait for Xu Yuxing to let go, he said, "Xu Yuxing, are you hot?"

Yechen's voice was slightly hoarse compared to usual, but overall he was still very calm.

His chin rested on Xu Yuxing's shoulder socket, and when he spoke, he pinched Xu Yuxing's collarbone, and both of them felt a little uncomfortable when their bones rubbed against their bones.

Obviously at the beginning, Yechen was held in Xu Yuxing's arms, but now Yechen stood upright on the spot, Xu Yuxing hugged him with his back slightly arched, and his chin was also resting on Yechen's shoulder.

Hanging on Yechen like a koala.

Hearing this, he first said "It's a little hot", and then straightened his upper body and distanced himself from Ye Chen.

After the two separated, Ye Chen immediately looked away: "Is there any water, I want to wash my face."

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a dark spot on the shoulder of Xu Yuxing's black T-shirt, his ears felt hot, and he added, "It's so hot."

Xu Yuxing glanced at the tips of his red ears, but didn't pierce him.

He opened the door of the studio and walked in. There were boxes of beverages in the corner of the warehouse, all of which were Shao Fan's stockpiles. Xu Yuxing took a bottle of mineral water from it.

He unscrewed the bottle cap, and said to Yechen who was rubbing his eyes with his back turned to him in the yard: "Child, come here."

Yechen washed his face with mineral water, and even the hair on his forehead was quite wet.

But at any rate, the cold water washed away the tightness of the dry tears on the face, and also took away some of the stickiness of summer.

The kid's face was covered with water, and even his eyelashes were wet with drops of water. Coupled with his still slightly red eye sockets, he looked like a peach that had just been soaked in water.

Compared with his usual hard-faced and cool appearance, he is much softer and tenderer.

Xu Yuxing handed him a piece of paper: "Xiaochen."

Ye Chen raised his eyes, Xu Yuxing found out a colored paper cannon from somewhere, and said to Ye Chen, "Happy birthday."

There was silence and nothing happened.

Yechen looked at Xu Yuxing.

Xu Yuxing: "..."

The atmosphere was a bit awkward, Xu Yuxing pulled the rope and pulled the cannon twice, but he still stubbornly refused to respond, then he gave up: "Who bought this crap."

Yechen's mood, which had been dull all day, suddenly became lighter.

This was the only happy birthday sentence he received today, and it was still remembered before the end of the day.

It seems that with this blessing, he has officially come of age.

Yechen frowned slightly: "Xu Yuxing, you are so stupid."

"It's rare to see a handsome guy as stupid as me." Xu Yuxing followed his words to tease him, and after being glared at by Yechen, he smiled and raised his hand to follow his wet bangs, "There are still two hours, you How do you want to live?"